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Cooking

Frugal Thanksgiving: Make Due or Don’t Make It At All

It’s going to happen.  You know it is.  You’re going to be up to your elbows in cooking dinner tomorrow and realize you forgot that key ingredient to a dish on your menu.  Ut oh!  Time to send someone on  a mad dash to the corner store, Wal-Mart, or whatever is open on Thanksgiving day.  [...]

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Ingredient Substitutions List

Next week, most of us are going to be on an insane cooking spree.  In spite of the best laid plans, I suspect that we’re all going to forget SOMETHING on the grocery list.  We can often avoid the emergency run to the corner store for some random (OVERPRICED) thing we forgot by just knowing [...]

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Blog Review: Once A Month Mom

About Tricia from Once a Month Mom: I have recently become a SAHM just this past winter when I had my first son. I am now pregnant with my second and due in December of 2009. I am an avid one a month cook (also referred to as OAMC, bulk cooking, power cooking and freezer [...]

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Life handed me rotten apples!

Lessons learned from a bag of rotting apples:
I’m a very goal oriented person.  I LOVE having a list of goals.  I make lists.  LOTS and LOTS of lists.  Lists of  things I’d like to do… places I’d like to go…  even 1, 3, and 5 year plans.  As a matter of fact, I get SO [...]

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5 Indoor Family Activities to Keep You Sane

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In case you didn’t get the memo, here in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s winter. Even in the Deep South of Atlanta, it’s COLD! I dare not suggest that the children go “out there” for at least a month or two. So, what am I [...]

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